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whobre

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Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·il y a 14 heures·0 comments

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·il y a 10 jours·0 comments

Kay Nishi and the Meeting That Started MS-DOS

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·il y a 2 mois·0 comments

Pointer-Stable Dynamic Arrays

vectrx.substack.com
2 points·by whobre·il y a 3 mois·0 comments

Why IBM Turned to Microsoft for Basic

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
5 points·by whobre·il y a 3 mois·0 comments

An Atari 8-bit Computer Timeline

goto10retro.com
3 points·by whobre·il y a 3 mois·1 comments

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
3 points·by whobre·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

Gary Kildall, Bill Gates and the "Gentleman's Agreement"

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
4 points·by whobre·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

They Think

ericsilberstein1.github.io
3 points·by whobre·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

Death of Software. Nah

hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
27 points·by whobre·il y a 5 mois·1 comments

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
3 points·by whobre·il y a 7 mois·0 comments

The Spherical Cows of Programming

programmingsimplicity.substack.com
31 points·by whobre·il y a 9 mois·46 comments

MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from SCO (1987)

computeradsfromthepast.substack.com
1 points·by whobre·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
247 points·by whobre·l’année dernière·289 comments

comments

whobre
·avant-hier·discuss
I like it! Is it still being produced given that Z80 has been discontinued?
whobre
·il y a 8 jours·discuss
This is the book to read if you are interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code
whobre
·il y a 13 jours·discuss
Roman Empire did not "ceased to be" in 476; all it happened that year was that an usurper was deposed.
whobre
·il y a 24 jours·discuss
By now, the dude must have developed something ridiculously successful and got filthy rich /s
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
Or concurrent cp/m?
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
GEM ran on MSDOS and GEMDOS
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
Ditto. Metro was the best graphic UI I ever used. I liked even on the laptop.
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
Right. I am saying there is a difference between portable and non portable assembly code. If you interacted with the machine via call 05h interface, it was portable. If you accessed computer’s video memory buffer directly it wasn’t.
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
In 1981, one could write a z80 assembly program for cp/m and it would run on thousands of different computer models.
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
Time to switch to PL/I
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
Gary Kildall was unable to understand why IBM insisted on using a simplistic CP/M clone, when DRI had a multitasking operating system in 1979.

The PC industry just didn’t care.
whobre
·le mois dernier·discuss
That's exactly what's happening. Many claim they are more productive with AI, but individual rise in productivity just doesn't translate to projects being completed any sooner.

And by "projects", I mean corporate ones with big teams involved. Hobby projects actually do get finished much faster.
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> A leopard can't change his shorts.

But it can get old and lose its teeth...
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
There was a rumor of MS and DRI having a non-aggression pact before 1981: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/gary-kildall-bill-g...
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Back in 1998, that would have been a legitimate concern…
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
They developed something called M-DOS or MIDAS in 1979, but by that time CP/M was already established, so they decided against releasing it.
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
That dude needs to fix his shift key.

That aside, the job market has been horrible for recent graduates in the last three years and it’s just a fact.
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> The founder of British computer maker Raspberry Pi has warned that overestimating the abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could put people off pursuing tech jobs and hurt the economy.

Of course the key word is “overestimating” and it’s omitted from the title.

“Journalism” nowadays…
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Sorry, but that’s some ivory tower wishful thinking.
whobre
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
< Rewind to 1973. The operating system common on microcomputers was CP/M

OK. I love Raymond’s blog but this is crazy. Microcomputers existed only as a prototype in 1973 (things like Intel’s Intellec dev systems) and there were no operating systems for them. Strictly speaking, Kildall did start developing CP/M in 1973, but at that point it ran only on a simulator on a PDP-10 mainframe.

1979, sure. 1973? Way too early…